The Importance of Linux (linux.com)
Of course readers of a book learn from it, but authors learn from writing it, too. One of the most surprising things I learned from writing the second edition of Advanced UNIX Programming was how good Linux really is."
Posted May 4, 2004 21:49 UTC (Tue)
by leandro (guest, #1460)
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Posted May 4, 2004 22:01 UTC (Tue)
by ds2horner (subscriber, #13438)
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Posted May 4, 2004 22:52 UTC (Tue)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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In practice, many improvers of non-copylefted code tend to share some of their improvements (as Apple did with Darwin, and as many have done with the X Window System), because this can have the effect of sharing the burden of maintaining the code as well. But, of course you are right that with BSD this is strictly optional.
The author does not seem to grasp the concept of software hoarding and how it is said to affect the *BSDs.
The Importance of Linux (linux.com)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but not all BSD-derived systems (including Darwin)Darwin and GPL
require thet one "share their improvements". Beret asserts this as the 1st importance of Linux. But this characteristic is not shared with BSD, and is not a requirement for non-distributed Linux implementations.
Darwin and GPL